Staving Mark J. Reed:
>But seriously, you must admit that the US is at least the prototype of the
>"free" state, with all that entails - some combination of "gold standard"
>and "beta release". We're still working out the bugs, and freedomwise
>we unfortunately seem to be tending in the direction of less freedom
>in the interest of (the illusion of) more safety, Ben Franklin be damned,
Large parts of the US constitution were written by a man who flew a kite in
a thunderstorm. This explains a lot.
Pete